HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: UNACCOMPANIED MIGRANT MINORS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA TO THE US – MEXICAN BORDER
Journal Title: The Copernicus Journal of Political Studies - Year 2015, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
Following the case of the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students, the Pandora’s Box was opened: pits filled with bodies, corruption, impunity and institutional weakness of a state where politicians, police and authorities at all three government levels have been infiltrated by the organized crime. In Mexico, corruption and drug trafficking are common and the economic reforms are not enough if they do not go together with an effective program of combating corruption and the society is not the main beneficiary of the reforms. This article will explain the background of the Ayotzinapa case, the characteristics of the Mexican political system that allow cases like Ayotzinapa, the consequences of the fight against organized crime launched by ex-President Felipe Calderon, the behavior of a sleeping civil society tired of the reduced economic results and where the state does not have the monopoly of the authority and does not guarantee security.
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Almendra Ortiz de Zárate Béjar, Yoanna Shubich Green
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- DOI 10.12775/cjps.2015.01.11
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